petty minded bureaucracy gone completely barking mad of silly little people failing every common sense test available to them and going bonkers. let me spell it out to those responsible, a language even their miniscule brains may possibly understand loudly and clearly. you put a 6-year-old girl in handcuffs. shame on you all. that's all for us tonight. "ac 360" starts now. we begin tonight keeping them honest. president obama doing what presidents do in election years when they've got proposals they know will win votes but don't have the votes to pass congress. they try to pass them anyway even knowing they will fail, sometimes especially to make them fail to prove a point. one on taxes, two on gas prices, which the president was doing a couple of weeks ago, he mocked.

>> this has been going on for years now, and every time prices start to go up, especially in an election year, politicians dust off their three-point plans for $2 gas. >> president obama, that was march 15th, mocking challenger newt gingrich. today he wasn't promising $2 a gallon gas. he wasn't dusting off a three-point plan. he did, however, label a five-point plan for cracking down on speculators. >> we can't afford a situation where speculators artificially manipulate markets by buying up oil, creating the perception of a shortage, and driving prices higher to flip a quick profit. we can't afford a situation where some speculators can reap millions while some american families get the short end of the stick. that's p not the way the market should work. >> keeping them honest, not even

his advisers could say how this would affect gasoline prices. "i'm not going to speculate about this provision or any other provision on the price of the pump." it won't get through the republican controlled house, especially if president obama is pitching it after spending the last few months arguing this. >> there is no such thing as a quick fix when it comes to high gas prices. there's no silver bullet. what i have also said about gas prices is there is no silver bullet. there are no short term silver bullets when it comes to gas prices. there are no silver bullets short term when it comes to gas prices. there's no silver bullet for avoiding spikes in gas prices every year. there are no quick fixes or silver bullets. >> in fairness, president obama has not forgotten that line. he used a variation of it today. he's not promising his plan will fix everything. there are economists of all political stripes who don't

think it can fix anything. there's not much a president, democrat or republican, can do to fix the prices at the pump. but it doesn't stop them from trying to avoid the political pain of high gas prices by promising quick political cures. here's george w. bush using almost identical language. >> if there were a magic wand to wave, i'd be waving it, of course. i strongly believe it's in our interest that we reduce gas prices. >> like president obama, president bush downplayed any solution to the problem. then two weeks later, proposed legislation to promote offshore drilling. legislation which couldn't get through congress but did become a large campaign issue. president obama seems to be doing the exact same thing. and as we said at the top, he's been following the same playbook on taxes. >> the yeas are 41, the nays are

55. >> the so-called buffett bill winning enough votes in the senate but not in the house to proceed. the bill would have required people earning more than $1 million a year to pay 30% in taxes. president obama has talked up the idea in several different ways. first t would put a dent in the debt. when a congressional study revealed it would only make a tiny dent, the white house changed course. then the principal deputy director of the national economic council of the white house said, "it was never our plan to bring the deficit down and get the debt under control significantly through the buffett rule." president obama later said, epa though the legislation wouldn't do enough to cut the deficit, it would help the economy grow. what is clear, cnn shows the bill enjoyed 72% among americans, 53% support among republicans. where it did not have enough support is in the senate.

republicans, as anticipated, blocked it. just moments after the vote, the white house put out this statement from president obama. "tonight senate republicans voted to block the buffett rule, choodsi choosing once again to protect tax breaks for the wealthy against the middle class." i spoke with arkansas senator art pryor earlier today. i've heard you call the buffett rule a political ploy, which is essentially agreeing with republicans on that, who said the white house was pushing it knowing full well the republicans would kill it. supporters say what's wrong with one party putting something up for a vote and getting congress on record? >> that happens up here all the time? i just decided i don't want to play that game anymore. i think people in arkansas are sick and tired of the partisan games up here. it didn't have the votes to pass the senate. it was never going to be brought up in the house. i understand it's a good political issue for the president, and i think he's

inseer about i sincere about it. it will get folded into tax reforms next year as we do major tax reform. it is a political season up here. with all due respect to the president and the republicans, both sides are trying to be political with it. let's get back to governing. let's stop the games up here and let's get back to governing. >> how much of this is about politics for you? you're going to be up for re-election in 2014. you're a democrat in a conservative state. you don't want to be a top republican target. is that fair? >> i know people say that. i wouldn't say that that's particularly fair. that was not my motivation. i wasn't trying to position myself somehu in arkansas. i voted for increasing taxes on millionaires. i think that millionaires should pay their fair share. i have no mental reservation about it.

trying to do it under those circumstances didn't make sense to me. we should do it with a larger package. i supported something like this with a larger package before. we need to get focused on the deficit. we need to connect the tax policy to the deficit and do serious deficit reduction. >> you really are in an awkward position. you are the last democrat standing in a state like arkansas. >> i am -- let's see. there's two of us in our delegation. there's one house member and then me. we have several elections this fall. we'll see what happens. you're right. the state's politics have gone through a change. who knows if that's a permanent change or just a one or two cycle blip, and it will return back to the way it normally is. >> the flip side is there's probably plenty of democrats who are fine to let you vote the way you want as long as it keeps you getting reelected. >> from my standpoint, this tax issue is not about getting

reelected. i voted previously to increase taxes on millionaires. i think millionaires should pay their fair share. i don't think we should single them out and pretend like and maybe present that it's really going to change their deficit number. it doesn't change that much. this doesn't move the needle that much. we need to do overall tax reform. i did not try to be political at this. i just thought the best policy is to wait on this and do it later as part of the joef aover package. >> let's bring in 2012 pollster cornell belcher and mary madeleine. how do you respond to the republican party saying putting up a vote they knew would fail is basically just a political ploy? >> so the senate majority leader, senator reid, puts forward a measure that 72% of

americans think is a common sense, ideal measure to put forward. it's not a toss-up. it's not even close. 72% of americans think it should be done. not only 72% of americans who support this, you've got a majority of senators who, quite frankly, would vote for it. i'm a little baffled. the question shouldn't be why senator reid put it up for a vote. clearly, the american people want it. the question is why are republicans blocking common sense legislation that a majority of americans want? that's the question. it's not why senator reid put up something that's common sense and the american people want. >> mary s this common sense or a political ploy? >> of course it's a political ploy. the problem is it's not an effective political ploy. the americans are concerned about the deficit. this buffett rule duoesn't do anything for the deficit. if we took all of buffett's money, he's the richest man in

the world, it it would get us through about 44 days. it's not going to stabilize the debt. he just wants to be fair. cornell is an excellent pollster. if you say to a voter, do you want somebody else to pay more taxes than you, they'll say yes. when you say, it's not helping the deficit, it's not helping the debt, it is going to hurt small businesses which do create jobs, they don't really have the same fear and loathing of millionaires, successful people, that this president seems to have. he's been attacking them forever. that might be good with his base, but it's not going to have any long term political impact on independents who are not -- again, they do not despise, and they do not loathe, and they do not malign successful people in this country. it's a very limited half shelf life. >> the white house has changed their reasoning for the buffett rule several times. >> here's the thing. 69% of the independents support this rule. and i feel sorry for mary having

to spin her way through the numbers, but the fact of the matter is there's not a silver bullet solution to fix the debt. we have to take several steps forward to fix the debt. part of the steps forward is asking very wealthy people to pay their fair share. that's why the middle class people in this country get. they so overwhelmingly support the buffett rule. it's built on american values that everyone should pay their fair share. the question shouldn't be why is it up for a vote? the question should be, why is it a small minority of republicans in the senate can stop the majority of senators in the senate from enacting this legislation. >> there's a calculation in bringing something up for a vote even though you know it's not going to pass. >> there should be a political calculation. you should pay a political cost when you go against the

overwhelming majority of the country. this is a democracy. the will of the people should have some say in this. when you go against the overwhelming majority in this country, there should be a political cost that's paid. >> both sides of the political aisle do this. this happens all the time, especially in an election year. >> yes, and i appreciate cornell's concern about me. on this occasion, i don't have to spin. the numbers don't add up. when you ask, particularly independents, they have been saying -- research republic. cornell knows it's a good outfit. independents want the president to focus on economic opportunity, not these inequality arguments, not these fairness arguments. they don't think that warren buffett paying higher taxes -- and prayers for his speedy recovery, by the way -- is going to create more jobs. they think this unsustainable debt and runaway deficit is going to impede job creation.

that's what they care about, and that's what the general election is going to be about. you can be concerned for me, cornell, but you don't have it. you just have these tricks. >> you can find more political insight at cnn.com. we're on facebook, google-plus. call me on twitte twitter @andersoncooper. breaking news, warren buffett has cancer. we'll talk about the outlook in his case in just a moment. plus you'll hear from someone who was right in the middle of this, as so many syrians have, in the middle of what's supposed to be a ceasefire. [ female announcer ] e-trade was founded on the simple belief

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keeping them honest tonight. not only is the ceasefire in syria not holding. not only is the regime still killing its own people and continuing to lie about it, it's now happening under the nose of u.n. observers. u.n. in syria because of a ceasefire. several members of the team were out on the streets today. they're supposed to be allowed to freely move any place to observe the cessation of

violence. that's according to ban ki-moon. the very same day observers were in the city, this was going on. crowds being fired on. we don't know by whom, but the targets fit the familiar pattern of government snipers shooting at civilians. there's new video claiming to be a military snipers' nest. someone hoedilding a camera whi the rest of the troops ham it up and dance. snipers are still in cities, people are still getting shot, and the shelling still goes on. take a listen. [ explosions ] >> you don't have to be a u.n. observer to know that's not a ceasefire. opposition members say at least 70 were killed in syria today. we can't confirm that number or this video. for more than a year the pictures haven't lied. the regime, however, has and

does, something the u.n. ambassador is saying plainly. you deal with syrian representatives all the time. i've had them on this program. they've said things which are not true. they've lied. they said things that are untrue time and time again. do they have any credibility to you? i don't know if you can say that. >> no, they don't. let's be plain. you're right. they have lied to the international community, lied to their own people. and the biggest fabricator of the facts is assad himself. his representatives are merely doing his bidding and under probably some not insignificant personal duress. but, no, words as we have said repeatedly are meaningless. the actions are what matter. and the actions thus far have continued to disappoint. >> earlier today i spoke with the activist zaidoun. we've talked to him a number of times over the last year. he was right in the middle of shelling in homs over the weekend, the shelling that wasn't and isn't supposed to be happening at all. here's our conversation. you were in homs on saturday.

what did you see? what happened? >> in fact, i went with a journalist from the national. just to see whether the two sides committed to the ceasefire. i mean the syrian free army and the regime's army. i started recording every mortar or every shot i hear. i heard the first mortar fired at homs at 10:56. and then the second one at 11:02. then i stopped recording because i realized that there was no ceasefire from the regime at all whatsoever and part of the shell came over. and left a hole. if i had just parked by car 30 seconds before that, i would have been dead by now. >> the neighborhoods that are being hit in homs, is the fire indiscriminant?

are there actual targets the regime is trying to strike? >> it's indiscriminate. there's no target whatsoever. nobody could just guess where the shell is coming. where the bomb is reaching. they are very much accustomed to death now. people talk about crackers. people are used to it. we just leave the home and say good-bye to our family. we could just not come back. >> obviously the u.n. now has been trying to have some sort of diplomatic effort. is there any chance that assad has any intention or desire to live up to his end of the bargain, to the agreements he has been making? is there any chance? >> this regime has one intention only. it's to deceive the national community, keep lying, keep deceiving them, and keep killing us.

now, with the u.n. sending 30 observers -- excuse me. isn't it too many? we need 30 observers for one neighborhood only. >> what do you hope happens? what do you hope the international community does? >> the international community should send 3,000 observers, and, believe me, the regime will fall the same day. the regime would be toppled the same day because there would be people rushing to the streets for demonstrations. we are peaceful people. we want this regime to go peacefully. but we need the help. we need the help of the rest of the world. don't tell me you couldn't have sent us more than 30 observers. 30? these are good to maybe do an examination, not to observe an army of half a million people just firing all types of arms

against civilians, against unarmed civilians. >> zaidoun, thank you very much for talking to us. >> thank you. >> he recently visited the refugee camps in turkey. it's one thing to talk about this in an academic way, and it's another thing to have just been in these camps. having seen it with your own eyes, what do you come away with? >> i think the word academic is right. it was an education to be in this camps and education to talk to these people. it was an education to trust what the diplomats say. these phrases that you hear. the annan diplomacy. ambassador susan rice feigning outrage about the lies of bashar al assad. then you walk these camps and it's something that breaks your heart. and you see proud families. i bonded with one family. i can't tell the whole story, but i can just tell you the headline, the essence of it. this is a family from a city

that early on really knew the cruelty of the regime. this is a middle class family. propertied family. they had a house of eight rooms. and there they were in this tent, the whole family there. two of their sons had been killed. one son is missing. and the word missing, by the way, we've been talking about 10,000 people have been killed in syria. it is by far the number must be much larger because people know what missing mean. missing mean really being killed. so a son is still missing, presumed killed. his infant who he had never seen his father, 6 months old, is there in this tent. and this family with a memory of a life that they had is there in these camps. they have endured one harsh summer. this was their first summer, last summer. they endured one winter. and it was unusually harsh winter in turkey at this time. they are dreading the onset of another summer. they know all of the things

asthat are said in the corridors of diplomacy are false. and they understand the situation they're in. it's really something. >> refugee camps the world over i find incredibly depressing. and one can look at them. you look at the pictures on the news showing the tents. you start to think, oh, these are refugees. these are not refugees. these are people who have homes but they have been forced to flee their homes. they have families, but their families have been murdered or killed and disappeared. it's easy to think of them as refugees, people who live in a camp. these are not people who live in a camp. these are people who have homes and don't belong in this camp. >> it's a humbling experience. this one particular family, because they came from an upper class, if you will, or a solid middle class origin. in this tent they tried to reproduce the grace of their life. they had this potted flowers. they had stuffed toys for the little children. and they understand that there is no easy return.

and the tales they tell -- like one of the reasons why they left, for example, their town is that they had five daughters, and rape had become an instrument of this war. the things that are going on in syria are really still not fully appreciated by outsiders. because the press is not there. because observers are not there. >> and we heard zaidoun, an activist who we talked to a lot over the last year, mocked the idea of 30 u.n. observers there. he said we need 3,000 in order to flood the country and to stop the regime from killing people. >> absolutely. >> and even that might not work. >> these observers will do nothing. observers -- we already saw the mission led by the sudanese general dabi. this would be the equivalent of it. i think we have to understand what the syrian regime has done. the syrian regime has taken the annan mission as an opportunity for more killing. and what they've done, if you look at the numbers -- >> they've upped the killing.

>> yes, they've upped the killing. and not only that, but the turkish authorities have the numbers now. and the jordanian authorities. under and through this annan mission, the refugee numbers have spiked. people have fled. so we talk about the kind of -- this diplomacy and the diplomats and the powers coming to the rescue of the syrians. but no rescue is coming. and one thing we have to understand, there's an american role here. there's an american abdication here. the resistance to helping the syrians in this crisis now comes for the most part from the united states. >> i appreciate it. i'm glad you were able to visit the camps. other news tonight, big news back home, jeff neely, not a household name, but this picture of him in a hot tub may mick him a symbol of excessive spending by a federal agency charged with keeping costs down. he's pleading the fifth. raw politics next. than clariti® because it starts working faster

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in raw politics tonight as house lawmakers grill the general services administration for more than five hours today. until today the gsa was an obscure agency. their job was to keep government costs down. but they had been doing the opposite, spending lavish amounts of money on its own employees. one of the key people called to testify is a guy named jeff neely. there he is on the right taking the fifth yesterday. the other picture on the left is what looks like a las vegas hot tub. we don't know if your tax

dollars paid for that hot tub or the glasses of wine that i guess he was enjoying while being in the hot tub. a 2010 conference in las vegas that neely organized is one of the most over the top expenses that investigators have found so far. here's dana bash. >> reporter: not only did this 2010 over the top las vegas gsa conference cost taxpayers more than $800,000, it turns out the lead conference organizer, regional administrator jeff neely, took eight trips to vegas to do what he called advance work. the cost? $147,000. >> my anger and frustration have gotten to a boiling point. >> reporter: as tales of extravagant spending unravelled during this hearing, it's clear why. >> 44 bucks for breakfast? i'm a big man. i can't spend 44 bucks for breakfast. somebody had to say that. are you kidding me? >> reporter: the gna inspector general who investigated put it

this way. >> we turned every stone. every time we did we found 50 more. >> reporter: this is the suite where deputy robert peck stayed in las vegas. >> i question the organizers as to the cost. they told me all the rooms were within the government rate. >> reporter: it's unclear what the cost really was. the organizer jeff neely seen here in what appears to be a las vegas hot tub invoked his fifth amendment rights for the second day in a row. but he was very much the focus. story after story of allegedly skirting and breaking the rules. maybe even the law to have a good time on the taxpayer dime. for example, it's against government rules to spend money for meals at meetings. unless awards are given out like here in las vegas. so they regularly made some up. listen again to the man investigating the whole thing. >> it was a running joke in region nine that in order to get food you had to give out awards. one of our witnesses characterized them as, i guess, fake awards and jackass awards and things of that nature. >> reporter: there was so little accountability inside the gsa,

its own chief financial officer didn't know what neely spent on all those trips and conferences. >> it was very difficult to have the visibility into the financial operations. >> reporter: at a different point the chairman lashed out at another gsa official about his inability to see their budgets. >> why are you hiding the information from this committee? >> reporter: mind boggling excess went beyond las vegas. at least a week in hawaii for a one hour ribbon cutting. >> would a one hour ribbon cutting justify a seven to nine day trip? >> not in my opinion. >> reporter: the gsa still hasn't told congress how much that one cost, but a 2010 conference for interns in palm springs has a price tag of $150,000. two months ago after the inspector general warned the gsa administrator of neely's extravagant spending, neely brought his wife along on a 17-day junket to the south pacific paid for by taxpayers.

just last month, a conference in napa valley wine country to the tune of $40,000. one gsa official said she raised the red flag to no avail. >> you notified the regional administrator ruth cox about the upcoming junket and expressed concern, right? >> i did. >> yeah. and what happened? >> i expressed concern and asked her to review the plans, make sure -- >> and that called it off, didn't it? no. >> no. >> i mean, it's amazing. it sounds like it's really a systematic problem. >> reporter: absolutely. it is stunning the lack of accountability that became crystal clear throughout these five-plus hours we sat and watched today. first of all, what was amazing is listening to these people who you think maybe even hoped would understand and know what costs are involved in these trips. they didn't only not have a clue they didn't think it was their

responsibility to know. they said oh, no, that's the regional administrator's job. that's jeff neely's job. now we know neely was spending lavishly. the other thing that was disturbing was it was from the bottom up. we heard that he was really intimidating people who maybe on a lower level could have said this is not right. but the investigator said that he would quote, squash them like a bug if they tried to challenge him. so it really is scary. >> the idea that he needed to take eight scouting trips to vegas before this conference is just ridiculous. >> reporter: ridiculous. >> incredible. dana, appreciate it. thanks. we're going to follow a number of other stories tonight. isha is here with the 360 bulletin. we're learning more about the secret service prostitution scandal at that hotel in colombia. 20 or 21 women were brought to the hotel. an official tells cnn that secret service agents implicated in the scandal will be offered polygraph tests. the official also says that some of the agents claim they did not

know the women were prostitutes. at the trial today of the norwegian man accuseded of killing 77 people over the summer at a shooting and bombing rampage. anders breivik boasted he carried out the most spectacular political attack in europe since world war ii. and final touchdown for the space shuttle "discovery." it landed at washington's dulles airport on the top of a 747. it will be put on display at the smithsonian national air and space museum. a bitter sweet moment. >> it's cool a 747 can carry the shuttle on top of it. >> totally modified to carry that weight, but totally awesome. >> isha, thanks. in the trayvon martin case, we're waiting on word on whether the judge assigned to george zimmerman's trial to going to recuse herself because of a conflict of interest, or at least a perception of it. a lot of people think she will.

in crime and punishment, george zimmerman the florida man charged with second degree murder in the shooting of trayvon martin is due back in court this friday for a bond hearing. the circuit court judge on the trial, jessica recksiedler, will decide whether or not to recuse herself from the case. mark o'mara filed a motion yesterday asking for a new judge because of a conflict of interest. the judge's husband is a law

partner of a cnn legal analyst mark nejame who is the first lawyer that zimmerman asked to represent him. nejame referred him to o'mara. judge recksiedler was assigned the case randomly. if she recuses herself, as many suspect she will, it's going to fall to the court's chief judge to appoint a new judge in the trial. there's a number of factors that could influence the choice. based on that there's likely candidates. legal analyst mark nejame joins me now along with rod smith. mark, there have been some names out there of judges who may replace this judge. we've got pictures of some of them. not all of them. what do you know about the judges? >> quite a bit. judge dickey is a senior judge. he could elect to keep the case or just let it go normal. then it would be a random rotation where it would land in one of three of the remaining four judges in the criminal division. if you remember the casey anthony case, judge perry kept the case as a senior judge -- as a chief judge, excuse me. that could happen here. unlikely, but it could happen. then there's a kind of a long shot.

that's judge jim eaton. judge eaton used to be the chief judge, very scholarly, very well-respected jurist, and he is a senior retired judge. he knows death cases. he knows murder cases as well as anybody probably in the state. and he's handled tough cases before and is not afraid of controversy. he'll do the right thing legally. he doesn't look at what's popular. he looks at what's right and follows the law. the three remaining is judge galluzzo, nelson, and lester. they're the remaining three judges out of the four on the criminal bench in seminole county. >> rod, you've appeared before judge lester before in court. you think he could potentially be named the judge in this case. why? >> well, it'll be a random selection if the chief judge decides not to keep it. and the chief judge may or may not. i agree with mark that it's unlikely that the chief judge will. i simply know lester by reputation.

i think i've been in one of his courts one time. i would say that judge eaton had a great reputation. it's somewhat unlikely that they keep a senior judge in a high profile case. they'll probably keep the judge in the rotation. the other thing is the chief judge will vet to find out if anyone else has a potential conflict. the rules were followed well in this case. the judge made a disclosure. the lawyer acted appropriately and quickly. the system's designed to do just this. my guess is that certainly lester is among the remainder, he would be one that has the status to handle a case like this. and pretty well seen in that community as a middle of the road judge. neither side goes in with an easy day. >> mark, judge eaton, who you mention, is a retired judge. why would they appoint a retired judge? >> first of all, he doesn't have a docket. a case like this could be so

demanding -- as crushed as the judicial system already is. it could be a seasoned judge such as eaton that would not have a docket otherwise could handle the motions and attention and otherwise that would be given to this. not only would he be excellent, but the other three have had no significant controversy as far as i know. i've known lester for over 30 years. we were law school classmates. he's just spectacular. judge nelson has a great disposition on the bench. and judge galluzzo is well liked and well respected by all sides. i think any four of those that they would act very, very well and we could find ourselves having the kind of trial that we hope to have. >> rod, when do you see this trial actually -- assuming it gets to trial, what kind of a timeline are we talking about here? >> the lawyers would -- they'll be discussing that once they get kind of past the preliminaries. one of the things that i know that everybody will be focusing on is whether or not this is tried in seminole county. that will be decided late.

they may even try to seat a jury before they make -- i've done high-profile prosecutions and i can tell you that o'mara's office is already in the process, i'm sure, of gathering all the pretrial publicity and evaluating it. there may be polling information. all that will be determined. some of that will be -- there'll be a date set for trial and it'll be substantially in the future. then there'll be a question whether or not they can seat a jury there or if they have to move it and go somewhere else. again, may shape whether a senior judge takes it. i think the convenience of a senior judge is typically they don't have an ongoing docket and it keeps the rest of the court system moving simply. it's also pretty rare in high-profile cases. that they go to senior judges. >> appreciate it. thank you very much. got breaking news tonight. warren buffett has been diagnosed with cancer. we'll tell you what buffett has revealed so far and talk to a doctor from the american cancer society about it. deep wrinkle night cream. it's clinically proven

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i tell you what i can spend. i do my best to make it work. i'm back on the road safely. and i saved you money on brakes. that's personal pricing. breaking news about the health of billionaire businessman warren buffett. he has been diagnosed with stage one prostate cancer. made the announcement to shareholders today. he'll start radiation treatment in july, that his condition is not life threatening. let's talk about it with dr. otis brawley of the american cancer society. dr. brawley, stage one prostate cancer, what does stage one mean exactly? >> stage one means that the cancer's confined in the

prostate. it's usually a very good prognosis cancer. many of these stage one tumors don't even need to be treated. >> in his letter to stockholders, he said he and his doctors decided on a two-month treatment of daily radiation to begin in july. why treat it? you say some of them don't need to be treated. is this standard? >> yeah. the national institutes of health about four months ago made an announcement about 130,000 of these stage one tumors are diagnosed every year. most of them can be watched and not treated. in the united states, most men choose to get it treated. younger men will usually choose surgery. older men will choose radiation. i personally believe it should be left to the patient and his doctor to decide what to do. many of these are such good prognosis tumors they can be watched. >> he said he discovered the cancer because his psa level jumped beyond his normal elevations. what is a psa level and is it what most people get checked? >> the antigen is a blood test.

it's actually quite a controversial blood test. some organizations have recommended that we not use it for prostate cancer screening. we only use it for diagnosis or following known disease. others such as the american cancer society says that men should know that there's a potential risk to prostate screening and a potential benefit. they need to know the risks and the benefits and need to make a decision as to whether they want to be screened. >> if you do get treated, what are the ramifications of it? i mean, assuming it's successfully treated, what are the side effects? >> i should say a stage one prostate cancer has a 99% five-year survival in the united states. the 15-year survival of all men with stage one prostate cancer is upwards of 90%. it's a very good prognosis tumor. radiation can cause side effects. especially bowel and bladder side effects.

surgery actually can cause similar problems. incontinence as well as impotence. and unfortunately with radical there's about a one-half of 1% chance that the operation itself will actually cause death. >> appreciate it, dr. brawley. overall prognosis looks good. good survivals rates there for five years and 15 years. thanks for being with us. isha's back with the 360 news and business bulletin. breaking news, good news all things considered. a 3-day-old baby kidnapped after his mom was shot and killed has been found alive. that's according to a houston affiliate. father and child being reunited tonight. the abduction happened in montgomery county, texas. witnesses say the man shot the boy's mom outside a pediatrician's office and took the baby. the shooter remains at large. the michigan woman who continued to collect welfare benefits after she won $1 million in the lottery is being charged with fraud. authorities say she didn't report the lottery winnings as

required by state law and that she collected more than $5,000 in welfare benefits that she wasn't entitled to. police in georgia are defending their decision to handcuff and arrest a kindergarten student who was having a tantrum. the police say they handcuffed the 6-year-old girl for her own safety. and anderson, last night you talked about the theft of five guitars belonging to tom petty and the heartbreakers. i'm happy to report the guitars have been recovered and the suspect has been arrested. police caught up with the suspect after he allegedly sold one of the guitars at a pawn shop. anderson? time for beat 360 winners. a chance to show up our staffers by coming up with a caption better than the one we came up with. our photo is rick santorum speaking at a meeting in st. louis. >> santorum campaigns for birmingham deputy comptroller 2013. and now i will play the air guitar and do some fancy pageant walking.

time now for the ridiculist. tonight we're adding once again critics of teen bride/america's sweetheart/ambassador of love courtney stoden. i've talked about courtney a lot. but that's only because the haters keep hating and i'm determined to prove them wrong. courtney stodden married

51-year-old character actor doug hutchinson when she was 16 with her parents' blessing. she sings, she models, she has some poetry on twitter. she does it all. tonight there's finally a way to silence the stodden scoffers once and for all. courtney has a new message for the world. three new messages. they all start the same. >> well, i was in the grocery store today shopping for sexy veggies. >> i was in the grocery store today shopping for sexy veggies. >> i was in the grocery store today shopping for sexy veggies. >> yeah. she looks really tan, doesn't she? anyway, courtney is on an epic quest for sexy veggies. oh, did she find some. a warning. the produce we're about to show you is extremely graphic, dare we say pornographic. >> i grabbed these veggies. then i turned around and these were calling to me for some reason. they're sexy, aren't they? >> yeah. we blurred the veggies. they were that sexy.

sometimes a pepper's just a pepper. not in this case, trust me. i don't want to show you the cucumber she found. let's say it was highly organic. the point is that courtney is trying to get people to go vegetarian. a noble cause no doubt. she has thrown herself into it tirelessly working to expose cruelty to animals, and also her foot hurts. >> my foot hurts really bad. i don't know what happened to it. >> it's those shoes, baby. >> no, no -- >> stop wearing the shoes. >> i'm not going to stop wearing my shoes. >> that is part of a riveting new web-based reality series that courtney is starting. though could someone get her a lapel mic. the am bent noise in the room is driving me crazy. i can barely hear what she's saying. people still have negative opinions about courtney stodden. but as a wide man once said, that's theirs to hold, not ours. >> people are welcome to their opinions. that's what the world is about. if they need to feel this way, that's theirs to hold. not ours.